Method of setting the log in sawmills



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DENNIS LANE, OF ILAINFIIGLD, VERMONT.

METHOD OF SETTING THE LOG IN SAWMIIJLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 32,774, dated July 9, 1861; Ressued February 18, 1868, No. 2,872.

To alt 'whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, DENNis LANE, of Plainfield, in the county of Iashington and State of Vermont, Ahave invented a new and Improved Log-Setting Device for Sawmills; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- `Figure l, is a side view of my invention; Fig. Q, a transverse vertical section of the same, taken in the line m, w, Fig. l; Fig. 3, a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a means for setting the carriages of saw mills, which will admit of a single attendant adj usting` the log to the saw and also operating the brakes for feeding and gigging-back the carriage.

The invention also has for its object the ready adapting of the parts for adjusting the log to saw boards of different thicknesses as hereinafter described.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents the log carriage of a saw mill; B, B, the ways or guides on which it is placed and allowed to work freely. The carriage A, is formed of two parallel bars a, a, connected by cross-ties L.

C, is a bar which is placed on the crossties 7o, and parallel with the bars a, a. This bar C, is allowed to slide freely on the crossties o, and it is kept in proper position by guides c, c, shown in Fig. l. To the bar C, two racks D,D, are attached at right angles. These racks pass through guides (l, (l, which are at the upper parts of the bearings E, E, of a shaft F, which shaft has a pinion G, at each end, the pinions gearing into the racks D, D.

Gn the bar C, there are placed the usual dogs e, e, setting levers f, f, and screws g, for adjusting and securing the log to the bar C, and on the shaft F, there are placed side by side a. series of ratchets H, I, J, K, the teeth of which are placed at diderent distances apart, that is to say, some have more teeth than others and no two have precisely the same number of teeth. On the shaft I?, there is also placed a ratchet Il, into which a retaining pawl M, catches.

N, is a forked lever which is fitted on the shaft F, the forked end of the lever embracing the ratchets, as shown clearly in Vlfigs. l, and 3. In the forked part of the lever N, there is fitted transversely a rod O, ou which a dog l), is placed loosely. This dog l), is allowed to slide on rod O, and it may be adjusted so as to engage with any of the ratchets I-I, I, J, K, the dog being retained in proper position by mea-ns of pins lz, on the rod 0. lhen the rod 0, is turned so that the pins 71., will be at the upper side of the rod, the dog P, may be shoved along on the rod owing' to a slot i, being made in the dog, see Fig. 2. The dog I), is connected by a spiral spring Q, with a lever It, attached to the outer end of the forked lever N. A lever R', is also attached to the outer end of the forked lever \I.

S, is a pin or stop attached to the bearing E, adjoining the ratchets. This stop S, deterniines the length of the inward movement of the lever N.

F rom the above description it will be seen that the bar C, may be moved laterally on the carriage A, by actuating the forked lever Y, the dog I), engaging with one of the ratchets H, I, J, or K, and thereby turning the shaft F, the pinions G, of which move the racks D. This movement of bar C, sets the log, shown in red in Figs. l, and 2, to the saw, and the movement of bar C, may be varied as desired by setting the dog I), in different ratchets, the greater the number of teeth in a ratchet the less the movenientof the bar C, and vice verst. The log therefore may be sawed into boards of varying thicknesses as may be required. The dog I, may be freed from any of the ratchets by simply raising the lever R. The bar C, may be moved or adjusted backward to its original position at any time by lifting dog I), disengaging pawl M, and shoving the bar C, back. The lever N, may be operated automatically by having a pendant A, which is attached to it pass up an inclined bar B', a roller a', being in the lower end of the pendant A.

Having thus described my invention what being placed on the shaft F, having pinions I claim ae new and desire to secure by Let- G, G, at its ends which gear into racks D, D, l0

ters Patent, is, attached to bar C, all being arranged as and The employment or use of the rateliets for the purpose Set forth. 5 H, I, J, K, having teeth at different dis- DENNIS LANE.

tances apart in connection with the ndjustlitnessesz able dog` P, placed on the rod O, which is RODNEY H. CRISTY,

provided with retaining pins 7L, the ratehets J. M. RICHARDS. 

